Enhancement in Tonically Active Glutamatergic Inputs to the Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla Contributes to Neuropathic Pain-Induced High Blood Pressure.

abstract：:Matricellular proteins are secreted, nonstructural proteins that regulate the extracellular matrix (ECM) and interactions between cells through modulation of growth factor signaling, cell adhesion, migration, and proliferation. Despite being well described in the context of nonneuronal tissues, recent studies have rev...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Jones EV,Bouvier DS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Feedback postural control depends upon information from somatosensation, vision, and the vestibular system that are weighted depending on their relative importance within the central nervous system. Following loss of any sensory component, the weighting changes, e.g., when suffering a vestibular loss, the mo...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Tjernström F,Fransson PA,Kahlon B,Karlberg M,Lindberg S,Siesjö P,Magnusson M

更新日期：2019-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurophysiological and neuroimaging data suggest that the brains of not only children but also adults are reorganized based on sensory inputs and behaviors. Plastic changes in the brain are generally beneficial; however, maladaptive cortical reorganization in the auditory cortex may lead to hearing disorders such as t...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Okamoto H

更新日期：2018-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Bilateral arm training (BAT) has shown promise in expediting progress toward upper limb recovery in chronic stroke patients, but its neural correlates are poorly understood. Objective:To evaluate changes in upper limb function and EEG power after a robot-assisted BAT in chronic stroke patients. Methods:In ...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Gandolfi M,Formaggio E,Geroin C,Storti SF,Boscolo Galazzo I,Bortolami M,Saltuari L,Picelli A,Waldner A,Manganotti P,Smania N

更新日期：2018-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Tinnitus is the phantom perception of sound in the absence of an acoustic stimulus. To date, the purported neural correlates of tinnitus from animal models have not been adequately characterized with translational technology in the human brain. The aim of the present study was to measure changes in oxy-hemoglobin conc...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Issa M,Bisconti S,Kovelman I,Kileny P,Basura GJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) has emerged as a tool to enhance human cognitive processes. Here, we provide a brief summary of the rationale behind tACS-induced effects on task-relevant brain oscillations and associated cognitive functions and review previous studies in young subjects th...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Antonenko D,Faxel M,Grittner U,Lavidor M,Flöel A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associative fear learning, in which stimulation of whiskers is paired with mild electric shock to the tail, modifies the barrel cortex, the functional representation of sensory receptors involved in the conditioning, by inducing formation of new inhibitory synapses on single-synapse spines of the cognate barrel hollow...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Jasinska M,Siucinska E,Jasek E,Litwin JA,Pyza E,Kossut M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostatic synaptic plasticity is a negative-feedback response employed to compensate for functional disturbances in the nervous system. Typically, synaptic activity is strengthened when neuronal firing is chronically suppressed or weakened when neuronal activity is chronically elevated. At both the whole cell and en...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Wang G,Gilbert J,Man HY

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two principal component analyses of anxiety were undertaken investigating two strains of mice (ABP/Le and C57BL/6ByJ) in two different experiments, both classical tests for assessing anxiety in rodents. The elevated plus-maze and staircase were used for the first experiment, and a free exploratory paradigm and light-d...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Clément Y,Joubert C,Kopp C,Lepicard EM,Venault P,Misslin R,Cadot M,Chapouthier G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Objective. Magnetic seizure therapy (MST) is a novel, experimental therapeutic intervention, which combines therapeutic aspects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation, in order to achieve the efficacy of the former with the safety of the latter. MST might prove to be a valua...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Cretaz E,Brunoni AR,Lafer B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The habituation/cross-habituation test (HaXha) is a spontaneous odor discrimination task that has been used for many decades to evaluate olfactory function in animals. Animals are presented repeatedly with the same odorant after which a new odorant is introduced. The time the animal explores the odor object is measure...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Coronas-Samano G,Ivanova AV,Verhagen JV

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on visually deprived individuals provide one of the most striking demonstrations that the brain is highly plastic and is able to rewire as a function of the sensory input it receives from the environment. In the current paper, we focus on spatial abilities that are typically related to the dorsal visual pathwa...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Dormal G,Lepore F,Collignon O

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive brain stimulation (NBS), such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) or transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), has been used in stroke patients with motor impairment. NBS can help recovery from brain damage by modulating cortical excitability. However, the efficacy of NBS varies am...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Lee J,Lee A,Kim H,Shin M,Yun SM,Jung Y,Chang WH,Kim YH

更新日期：2019-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction. Bipolar disorder (BD) implies risk of suicide. The age at onset (AAO) of BD carries prognostic significance. Substance abuse may precede the onset of BD and cannabis is the most common illicit drug used. The main goal of this study is to review the association of cannabis use as a risk factor for early o...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Leite RT,Nogueira Sde O,do Nascimento JP,de Lima LS,da Nóbrega TB,Virgínio Mda S,Moreno LM,Sampaio BH,de Matos E Souza FG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many studies have investigated the functions of histidine triad nucleotide-binding protein 1 (HINT1), its roles in neurobiological processes remain to be fully elucidated. As a member of the histidine triad (HIT) enzyme superfamily, HINT1 is distributed in almost every organ and has both enzymatic and nonenzy...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Liu P,Liu Z,Wang J,Ma X,Dang Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ample evidence suggests that estrogens have strong influences on the occurrence of stress-related mood disorders, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Through multiple approaches, we demonstrate that the G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) is widely distributed along the HPA axis and in brain...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Zheng Y,Wu M,Gao T,Meng L,Ding X,Meng Y,Jiao Y,Luo P,He Z,Sun T,Zhang G,Shi X,Rong W

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Clinically, electroacupuncture (EA) is the most common therapy for aging-related cognitive impairment (CI). However, the underlying pathomechanism remains unidentified. The aims of this study were to observe the effect of EA on cognitive function and explore the potential mechanism by which EA acts on the ...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Hou Z,Qiu R,Wei Q,Liu Y,Wang M,Mei T,Zhang Y,Song L,Shao X,Shang H,Chen J,Sun Z

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly emerging evidence implicates perineuronal nets (PNNs) and extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules that compose or interact with PNNs, in the pathophysiology of several psychiatric disorders. Studies on schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, mood disorders, Alzheimer's disease, and epilepsy point to the involve...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Pantazopoulos H,Berretta S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several research studies point to the fact that sensory and cognitive reductions like cataracts, deafness, macular degeneration, or even lack of activity after job retirement, precede the onset of Alzheimer's disease. To simulate Alzheimer's disease earlier stages, which manifest in sensory cortices, we used a computa...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Aguiar-Furucho MA,Peláez FJR

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Success in locomotor rehabilitation programs can be improved with the use of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Although a wealth of research has demonstrated that locomotion is largely controlled by spinal mechanisms, the brain is of utmost importance in monitoring locomotor patterns and therefore contains information...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Cheron G,Duvinage M,De Saedeleer C,Castermans T,Bengoetxea A,Petieau M,Seetharaman K,Hoellinger T,Dan B,Dutoit T,Sylos Labini F,Lacquaniti F,Ivanenko Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of attentional mechanisms in peripheral vision loss remains an outstanding question. Our study was aimed at determining the effect of genetically determined peripheral retinal dystrophy caused by Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) on visual cortical function and tested the recruitment of attentional mechanisms using f...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Ferreira S,Pereira AC,Quendera B,Reis A,Silva ED,Castelo-Branco M

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic neuroepithelia and adult subventricular zone (SVZ) stem and progenitor cells express nestin. We characterized a transgenic line that expresses enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) specified to neural tissue by the second intronic enhancer of the nestin promoter that had several novel features. During em...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Walker AS,Goings GE,Kim Y,Miller RJ,Chenn A,Szele FG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of sleep microarchitecture and neural oscillations is an increasingly popular technique for quantifying EEG sleep activity. Many studies have examined sleep spindle oscillations in sleep-disordered adults; however reviews of this literature are scarce. As such, our overarching aim was to critically review ...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Weiner OM,Dang-Vu TT

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Action observation (AO) allows access to a network that processes visuomotor and sensorimotor inputs and is believed to be involved in observational learning of motor skills. We conducted three consecutive experiments to examine the boosting effect of AO on the motor outcome of the untrained hand by either mirror visu...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Bähr F,Ritter A,Seidel G,Puta C,Gabriel HHW,Hamzei F

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is an inheritable neuropsychological disease caused by expansion of the CGG trinucleotide repeat affecting the fmr1 gene on X chromosome, resulting in silence of the fmr1 gene and failed expression of FMRP. Patients with FXS suffer from cognitive impairment, sensory integration deficits, learn...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Yang T,Zhao H,Lu C,Li X,Xie Y,Fu H,Xu H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the elderly; important risk factors are old age and inheritance of the apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) allele. Changes in amyloid precursor protein (APP) binding, trafficking, and sorting may be important AD causative factors. Secretase-mediated APP cleavage pr...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Zollo A,Allen Z,Rasmussen HF,Iannuzzi F,Shi Y,Larsen A,Maier TJ,Matrone C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stria vascularis (SV) generates the endocochlear potential (EP) in the inner ear and is necessary for proper hair cell (HC) mechanotransduction and hearing. Cell junctions are indispensable for the establishment of compositionally distinct fluid compartments in the inner ear. Ototoxic drug cisplatin can damage SV ...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Zhang N,Cai J,Xu L,Wang H,Liu W

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:High-frequency synchronization has been found in many real neural systems and is confirmed by excitatory/inhibitory (E/I) network models. However, the functional role played by it remains elusive. In this paper, it is found that high-frequency synchronization in E/I neuronal networks could improve the firing rate cont...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Han F,Wang Z,Fan H,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Freezing of gait (FoG) is among the most disabling symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Recent studies showed that action observation training (AOT) with repetitive practice of the observed actions represents a strategy to induce longer-lasting effects compared with standard physiotherapy. We investigated wh...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Pelosin E,Barella R,Bet C,Magioncalda E,Putzolu M,Di Biasio F,Cerulli C,Casaleggio M,Abbruzzese G,Avanzino L

更新日期：2018-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Dizziness and vertigo frequently occur after cochlear implantation (CI) surgery, particularly during the early stages. It could recover over time but some of the patients suffered from delayed or sustained vestibular symptoms after CI. This study used rat animal models to investigate the effect of unilateral cochleost...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Suh MW,Hyun J,Lyu AR,Kim DW,Park SJ,Choi JW,Hur GM,Park YH

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00